Another reminder to Wellington elites
- Amanda Riddell
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- May 31, 2024
- 2 min read
Wellington doesn't have the legal right to alter my gender expression. There is no legally valid circumstance under which I could be forced to alter that expression to get paid. I have valid reasons for choosing not to medically transition, and your insistence that I should/must/have to enjoy HRT isn't a valid comment. That isn't gender-affirming healthcare, and that is actually yet another attempt to claim that my human rights are somehow less valid than the next citizen. All because my bulge caused discomfort for people that barely know me, yet seem to despise my existence. -
That is illegal, and if you think I stink then you'll never get to hear me sing live.
Amanda will never consent to being Tina. Amanda is well within her legal rights to refuse to portray that character and VUW is breaching my cease and desist letter by refusing to give up their quixotic quest to control me. Newsflash: next time you want me to do a script for free, make sure I'm a student! I wrote that spec on my own time, and therefore Tina is my intellectual property. I refused to make the Tina film in 2023; I made the Dakumentary instead. VUW and the Council are just butthurt that the Dakumentary didn't create any jobs. Again, if they'd bothered to get involved I could have had research assistants or assistant editors or assistant camera people.... But no, that documentary was 'too dangerous' ... VUW has no courage, and that's why they've resorted to sneaky, underhanded tactics to attempt to force my hand. It is genuinely wrong that they refuse to accept me as Amanda, and it is genuinely wrong that people think I must 'be myself' -- watch the Dakumentary, accept the legal truths regarding my IP and then piss off until you're willing to talk about my 2030 script. - It's not a 'phantom project' -- the second that I log onto DeviantArt, there'll be more attempts from people that have never met me to try and force me to consent. That is beyond illegal. Give up, write me real emails and begin a real friendship. Stop trying to be above me and accept me as your equal. Stop telling me to reconnect with musicians that took Jake's side. He assaulted me, but I'm such a spaz that you refused to believe me I'm avoiding gigs largely because he's around and I have nothing to say to him. If I was a scientist that had invented some new tool that reduced methane emissions, then I'd get to apply for a patent, and to profit from that patent; this is the exact same situation, and that is why I'm fuming at the fucking rich folks punching down. VUW raised $30 million for the Town Hall, yet my $50,000 licencing fee is too much? Stop calling me crazy because I disagree with your views. Stop calling me crazy when $50,000 is a fair sum. ✊🏻
I was equally insulted that the NZSO feinted regarding Pan's Preludes, but only if it was for the NYO, which would've meant me getting paid zero dollars and zero cents. Ultimately, the people that want me to perform aren't willing to pay for my IP, and that is indeed an important prerequisite for a performance. I'm a talented writer, and that allows me to say fuck you to people that are punching down. I knew from when Glen Downie was living with me that NYO commissions are unpaid, and in this particular instance I'd written it on spec, so it wasn't NZSO property.